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-It is difficult to say exactly what is happening inside Burma right now, says Marte Graff Jenssen, right, of the Norwegian Burma Committee. -Lots of unverifiable rumours are coming out every hour, but one thing is certain: At the other end of the current events, neither the country itself nor the world’s way of relating to it will be the same. (27-SEP-07)
 

On 7 October 2006, the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, right, was shot and killed outside her home in Moscow. On Sunday 7 October this year, several Norwegian human rights organisations, among them HRH F and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, both of the Human Rights House in Oslo, will observe the one year anniversary of her death with a memorial event at the Nobel Peace Centre. (27-SEP-07)
 

On September 25, in Skopje the Special Representative of the UN Secretary- General on the situation of human rights defenders, Hina Jilani, finished her official visit to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The report includes numerous positive remarks as well as recommendations for human rights defenders in the region. (27-SEP-07)
 

Bosnian public is concerned with the situation in education based on the fact that one part of country is experiencing actions supporting segregation of children in schools, and their separation on the basis of ethnicity and belonging to different constituent peoples. (27-SEP-07)

On 7 October 2006, the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, right, was shot and killed outside her home in Moscow. On Sunday 7 October this year, several Norwegian human rights organisations, among them HRH F and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, both of the Human Rights House in Oslo, will observe the one year anniversary of her death with a memorial event at the Nobel Peace Centre. (27-SEP-07)
 

-It is difficult to say exactly what is happening inside Burma right now, says Marte Graff Jenssen, right, of the Norwegian Burma Committee. -Lots of unverifiable rumours are coming out every hour, but one thing is certain: At the other end of the current events, neither the country itself nor the world´s way of relating to it will be the same. (27-SEP-07)
 

A representative for the Rafto Foundation for Human Rights conducted a telephone interview on 25 September with Mr. Aye Chan Naing, the Director at the Democratic Voice of Burma (Republic of the Union of Myanmar), Oslo to report on the situation. According to Aye Chan Naing the protests against the repressive military government that has ruled Burma (Myanmar) since 1962 are growing and they will continue to grow. (26-SEP-07)

Yesterday, 25 September, the Rafto Foundation sent an urgent request to Norwegian authorities as well ambassadors of the Russian Federation, the People´s Republic of China and India in Norway concerning the recent demonstrations in Burma (Republic of the Union of Myanmar). This is the first time in 18 years that monks have withheld their recognition of leading members of the military junta. (26-SEP-07)
 

In March 2007, the European Court of Human Rights acknowledged the legitimacy of the complaint lodged by Alicja Tysiac against the refusal to perform an abortion and awarded her 25 thousand Euros compensation. In June, the Polish government appealed the verdict and called for renewed consideration of the complaint. The Court in Strasbourg dismissed the appeal and upheld the compensation awarded in March. (26-SEP-07)
 

Yesterday, 25 September, the Rafto Foundation of the Human Rights House in Bergen sent an urgent request to Norwegian authorities as well ambassadors of the Russian Federation, the People´s Republic of China and India in Norway concerning the recent demonstrations in Burma (Republic of the Union of Myanmar). This is the first time in 18 years that monks have withheld their recognition of leading members of the military junta. (26-SEP-07)
 

A representative for the Rafto Foundation for Human Rights conducted a telephone interview on 25 September with Mr. Aye Chan Naing, the Director at the Democratic Voice of Burma (Republic of the Union of Myanmar), Oslo to report on the situation. According to Aye Chan Naing the protests against the repressive military government that has ruled Burma (Myanmar) since 1962 are growing and they will continue to grow. (26-SEP-07)
 

The Norwegian Burma Comittee is following the situation closely as the Burmese military has directly threatened monks involved in protests in the country. Democratic Voice of Burma reports that the Minister for religious affairs brigadier general Thura Myint Maung warned Burma’s monks not to break Buddhist “rules and regulations”. (25-SEP-07)